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...home writing about the English tradition of picaresque heroes and prurient heroines. The 17th and 18th Centuries, he believes, produced literary techniques which later novelists have been wise to adopt. Smollett developed the physical realism and "chamberpot humor" which characterizes much of Joyce. Richardson introduced the "principle of procrastinated rape [which] is said to be the ruling one in all the great best-sellers." Fielding, Pritchett says, is the granddaddy of them all: in his work the reader can not only "pick out the perennial characters of the main part of English fiction, but . . . many of its idiosyncrasies and limits...
...reported that rural crimes are on the increase (up 7.5% over 1946), urban crimes on the decrease (down 2.3%). In rural areas, rape cases alone jumped 13.6% in the first six months of 1947. As of April 30, the U.S. had 1.75 cops for every 1,000 inhabitants, an increase...
...this "rape of Silesia," however, he proclaimed justifications that were echoed in every subsequent Prussian and German aggression. The mere legal rights were the least important. Prussia, he argued, was entitled to territory commensurate with her stature as a state; Prussia could govern Silesia better than Austria could; it was Prussia's destiny, and anyway he was only striking first, for it was a defensive war designed to "prevent others [from] seizing" Silesia, and to bulwark Prussia against her enemies. The works of Prussia's enemies, then and in the dreadful Seven Years' War that followed, were...
Your article states: "He wanted no boys of good reputation. . . . Most were sent by judges, after being tried for such crimes as robbery, assault, attempted murder and rape. The rest were problem boys whose parents could no longer handle them...
While his first building was being put up, Starr and his first two pupils slept in a hayloft near by. Soon he was getting 1,000 applicants a year. Most were sent by judges, after being tried for such crimes as robbery, assault, attempted murder and rape. The rest were problem boys whose parents could no longer handle them...